Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal